Internet schoolgirl joins suicide cult
Leo Lewis; 25/4/08
More than 120 people fled their homes yesterday when a 14-year-old Japanese girl took her own life by creating clouds of highly toxic gas. Her death, just a few days into the new school year, was the latest tragedy in what some in Japan see as an epidemic of copycat suicides among the young and internet-obsessed. The girl’s death brought to 70 the number of young people in Japan who have brewed the fatal concoction and killed themselves with hydrogen sulphide gas this year. Police fear that worse is to come: one of the products used to generate the gas has sold out in many stores in the past few weeks.
See; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23596786-25837,00.html
Japan’s latest fad: rotten egg gas; Peter Alford; 25/4/08; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23593332-25837,00.html
Tags: Japan, Suicide, Young People